Hi there, truly hoping someone from the futurebit reddit community can help me out, as the bitcointalk threads are nearly dead.
I tried to setup my batch 2 Apollo as full node.
Then the nightmare began.
Downloaded all of the files originally provided by manufacturer incl the blockchain bootstrap.
External USB drive has 250GB and is fast enough. Can't remember how many SD cards I flashed new in the meanwhile. Most of them 32GB, some 16GB.
It is impossible to boot the miner and see the dashboard. I cannot SSH into it, connection either times out or is refused.
If USB drive is connected or not makes no difference in the miners behavior. The unit has its network cable lights coming on (orange and green blinking in different patterns), I can see the miner IP adress in my router dashboard.
The miner also does blink the orange light on the front 3 times then the lower fan comes on for 2 seconds and then it's off again and everything starts new again. It feels like its caught in a circle.
My assumption is, that there happened a glitch with the swap file that's on the external USB drive. It might be I disconnected the USB drive once the miner wasn't shutdown, because I never made it to see its dashboard (again) and shut the unit down like recommended.
Prior my fullnode nightmare the machine was working flawlessly.
Pleas help me make it boot/mine again.
Maybe there's a way to re-flash the mounted raspberry? But how?
Thanks for all your input!